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. 2018 Sep 8;8(5):692-695.
doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibx017.

SBM recommends policy support to reduce smoking disparities for sexual and gender minorities

Phoenix Alicia Matthews  1 , Amanda C Blok  2 , Joseph G L Lee  3 , Brian Hitsman  4 , Lisa Sanchez-Johnsen  5 , Karriem Watson  6 , Elizabeth Breen  1 , Raymond Ruiz  1 , Scout  7 , Melissa A Simon  4 , Marian Fitzgibbon  8 , Laura C Hein  9 , Robert Winn  8
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SBM recommends policy support to reduce smoking disparities for sexual and gender minorities

Phoenix Alicia Matthews et al. Transl Behav Med. .

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  • Corrigendum.
    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] Transl Behav Med. 2019 Mar 1;9(2):397. doi: 10.1093/tbm/iby051. Transl Behav Med. 2019. PMID: 29790958 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

The Society of Behavioral Medicine supports the inclusion of gender and sexual minorities in all local, state, and national tobacco prevention and control activities. These activities include surveillance of tobacco use and cessation activities, targeted outreach and awareness campaigns, increasing access to culturally appropriate tobacco use dependence treatments, and restricting disproportionate marketing to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities by the tobacco industry, especially for mentholated tobacco products.

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